It's the last few days on site, Ben and Christian bring us up to date...
Ben gets to grips with geophysics:
Today began as every other day it seems, wet and cold. This
morning me, Andrew and Dan were given the task of clearing a section of the
site where it was believed the main wall would continue across the site. Needless
to say this was not very pleasant as the area was covered with pools of water
and mud, after this was cleared we began to trowel at the area, and started to
uncover the wall. However after break we did not get a chance to finish our job
as we then had the task of surveying an area using geophysics, more
specifically a resistivity meter. This process was quite enjoyable and was
certainly a new experience for all of us.
Christian talks us through the last full day on site (boo! L)
After almost four weeks at Grosvenor Park today was the
penultimate day of the dig and the last day of any excavation on site, so
everyone was busy finishing digging and recording the features before the
terram is laid and the trench filled tomorrow. Despite showers throughout the
day the levels were taken and plans drawn of every wall, ditch and pit on site.
I planned and, with the dumpy level, measured a section of the culvert or
drainage ditch that runs across the site. In the afternoon site photographs
needed to be taken so along with Rafie and Fran, I had the task of troweling
what seemed like half the site and removing every one of the many leaves which
fell into the trench (it didn't help that the area being photographed was under
a tree!).
Once all the photographs were taken all that was left was to clean
all the tools and start packing up all the equipment ready for the trench to be
closed tomorrow. Despite the mud and rain, with one day left to go, I will miss
the excavation and will be disappointed when I see the backfill being placed in
the trench on Friday afternoon.
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